Show that heroism not only can be taught-it can be mastered.” - New York Post I connected with this book on a primal, emotional, and intellectual level, and have been profoundly inspired by McDougall’s work.” -Laird Hamilton
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“ Natural Born Heroes provides a blueprint of the essential ideas of how to move, what to eat, and the spirit in which to approach our everyday lives. Kind of like kidnapping a German general on an island swarming with Nazi troops.” - NPR Books But under McDougall’s sure hand the combination improbably works. His personal quest to ‘rewild the psyche’ might seem an awkward fit with war storytelling. It is balanced out with the journalistic account of McDougall’s entry into the world of the hero. The essential narrative here, the twisty tale of a kidnapping that incredibly goes right, is exciting. schools the reader in the art of the champion.
McDougall redefines the heroic ideal, establishing heroism as a skill set rather than a virtue. Just as Born to Run inspired readers to get off the treadmill, out of their shoes, and into the natural world, Natural Born Heroes will inspire them to leave the gym and take their fitness routine to nature-to climb, swim, skip, throw, and jump their way to their own heroic feats. More than a mystery of remarkable people and cunning schemes, Natural Born Heroes is a fascinating investigation into the lost art of the hero, taking us from the streets of London at midnight to the beaches of Brazil at dawn, from the mountains of Colorado to McDougall’s own backyard in Pennsylvania, all places where modern-day athletes are honing ancient skills so they’re ready for anything. All of these skills, McDougall learns, are still practiced in far-flung pockets throughout the world today. On Crete, the birthplace of the classical Greek heroism that spawned the likes of Herakles and Odysseus, McDougall discovers the tools of the hero-natural movement, extraordinary endurance, and efficient nutrition. McDougall makes his way to the island to find the answer and retrace their steps, experiencing firsthand the extreme physical challenges the Resistance fighters and their local allies faced. How did a penniless artist, a young shepherd, and a playboy poet believe they could carry out such a remarkable feat of strength and endurance, smuggling the general past thousands of Nazi pursuers, with little more than their own wits and courage to guide them?
The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere.Īfter running an ultramarathon through the Copper Canyons of Mexico, Christopher McDougall finds his next great adventure on the razor-sharp mountains of Crete, where a band of Resistance fighters in World War II plotted the daring abduction of a German general from the heart of the Nazi occupation.
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